Sand Hutton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Sand Hutton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Sand Hutton at 6 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Sand Hutton supported a recorded population of 5 smallholders, 108 freemanmen, working 27 ploughs between them.
By 1086 Sand Hutton was worth 23.25 shillings, up from 9 shillings before the Conquest – a sign this community came through the Conquest without being ruined.
The survey lists 2 manors at Sand Hutton under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.
Resources Recorded at Sand Hutton (1086)
- Mills: 0 mills
- Cattle: 8
- Pigs: 12
- Sheep: 360
- Horses (cobs): 3
- Salthouses: 45
- Meadow: 8 acres
Other Settlements in Bulford
- Aldwark
- Alne
- Barnby [House]
- Barton [le Willows]
- Beningbrough
- Bossall
- Brafferton
- Brandsby
- Bulmer
- Buttercrambe
- Carlton [Farm]
- Claxton
- Coneysthorpe
- Corburn
The Meaning of the Name
The name Sand Hutton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Sand Hutton.
Listed Buildings Near Sand Hutton
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Sand Hutton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Church of St Leonard’s - 0.16 km
- Church of St Mary - 0.16 km
- Dovecot in Garden of no 7 - 0.22 km
- Stank Bridge - 0.33 km
- Sand Hutton and Claxton War Memorial - 0.65 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Sand Hutton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Sand Hutton:
Sand Hutton Today
Today Sand Hutton lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 208 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Sand Hutton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Upper Helmsley - 1.0 km S
- Claxton - 2.0 km N
- Thorpe Hill - 2.2 km NE
- Bossall - 2.8 km NE
- Carlton Farm - 2.8 km SW
- Gate Helmsley - 3.0 km S
Heritage Around [Sand] Hutton
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Andy Kerridge · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Sam Kelly · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Kath Bonson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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